#academicfreedom — Public Fediverse posts
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Probably the most memorable takeaway from the podium discussion on academic freedom on the #dgps2026 : Be prepared to resist from day 1!
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Come and Take Them, Dan Patrick
https://www.texasobserver.org/dan-patrick-books-come-and-take-them/?goal=0_975e2d1fa1-8a88e46481-34915098&mc_cid=8a88e46481&mc_eid=d576a23207
#USPol #TxLeg #SB13 #DanPatrick #Libraries #SchoolLibraries #Books #BookBan #TexasSchools #Abilene #Texas #AcademicFreedom #KalynGensic #TexasObserver -
"In 2023, 60 per cent of Australians rejected a constitutionally recognised Voice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. A body that could only make representations, only on matters concerning the people whose ancestors have been here sixty thousand years.
"Too much, the No campaign shrieked. Division. Privilege. Special treatment.
"Nine months later, Anthony Albanese handed Jillian Segal what the Voice never dreamed of asking for. Not a right to be heard. Power. No election. No parliamentary vote. No hearing. A three year commission reporting personally to the Prime Minister, with a mandate reaching into every campus, newsroom, classroom, gallery, charity, arts contract and visa file in the Commonwealth."Andrew Brown writes: https://michaelwest.com.au/the-segal-state-the-office-australia-never-voted-for/
#academicFreedom #influence #lobbying #policing #silencing #genocideSupport #hasbara #grievability #conflation #confusion #manipulation #proZionism #StandWithIsrael #lineOfColor #Australia #RoyalCommission #AusPol #JillianSegal #Segal #AnthonyAlbanese
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School boards and universities will both be affected by Ontario’s Bill 101 sweeping changes
#Ontario #Canada #Bill101 #Education #Politics #PublicPolicy #Universities #Schools #Students #Teachers #AcademicFreedom #PolicyReform #HigherEducation #StudentData
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"Israeli universities are embedded in the Israeli state’s military-industrial complex and actively contribute to the occupation of Palestinian land and the apartheid and genocide of Palestinian life. German universities and academic institutions serve as strategic partners in the Israeli colonial apparatus."
The Academic Boycott Campaign Germany: https://theleftberlin.com/academic-boycott-campaign-germany/
#ABCDe #academicBoycott #culturalBoycott #israelBoycott #antiZionism #faculty #academia #academic #universities #higherEd #academicFreedom #university #academics #theocracy #JewishState #campus #campuses #Germany
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Among other commitments it also requires #Northwestern to revoke the so-called #DeeringMeadow agreement, which it signed in April 2024 in exchange for pro-#Palestinian #protesters ending their tent encampment on campus.
During negotiations, interim #university president Henry Bienen said Northwestern refused to cede control over #hiring, #admissions, or its #curriculum. “I would not have signed this agreement without provisions ensuring that is the case,” he said.
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Capitulation
#Northwestern to pay $75 million in deal with #Trump admin to restore #federal #funding
#NorthwesternUniversity has agreed to pay $75 million to the US government in a deal with the Trump admin to end a series of investigations & restore hundreds of millions of dollars in federal #research funding.
#extortion #law #FirstAmendment #AcademicFreedom #FreeSpeech #Palestinian #HumanRights #protests
https://apnews.com/article/trump-northwestern-agreement-antisemitism-d646516c3f800faa416228deab61532c -
"In February, Sheffield Hallam University, home to the Helena Kennedy Centre for International Justice (HKC), a leading research institution focused on human rights, ordered one of its best-known professors, Laura Murphy, to cease research on supply chains and forced labour in China."
Academic freedom is threatened by institutional conflicts of interest. Her research has been reinstated after she said she would take legal action.
[Edit: more background on the topic https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025-05-29/chinas-economy-runs-on-uyghur-forced-labour]
#AcademicFreedom #SheffieldHallam #UKresearch #ConflictsOfInterest #UKuniversities #HumanRights #ForcedLabour #Uighurs #Xinjiang #LauraMurphy #UKChinaRelations
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I don't want the UK to be further sucked in to the US led campaign against China, but stuff like this obstructs efforts to tamp down Sinophobia.
#UKEducation #HigherEducation #SheffieldHallam #Universities #AcademicFreedom #China #Uyghurs #ForcedLabour #UKChinaRelations #LauraMurphy #HelenaKennedyCentreForInternationalJustice #HumanRights #Sinophobia
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…In April of this year, the #FederalGovernment abruptly froze at least $790 million in federal #research #funding that had been planned for #Northwestern, a Big Ten #school near #Chicago.
The attacks on #Northwestern have been part of a broader campaign by #Republicans to take American #universities…. Schill’s resignation is the latest in a series of high-profile departures from the nation’s elite #schools….
#law #Constitution #AcademicFreedom #education #Trump #BrainDrain #fascism #tyranny
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The president of #NorthwesternUniversity, Michael H. Schill, announced Thursday that he would resign, after a difficult tenure that included attacks from #Republicans in #Congress & cuts by the #Trump admin that forced the #university to lay off hundreds.
#Northwestern became a target this year of Trump ofcls, who cut nearly $800 million of the university’s federal #research #funding, after months of intense scrutiny from Republicans.
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Enough!!!
#Northwestern President Will Resign After #University Faced #Republican Pressure
The president, Michael Schill, will step down after months of turbulence, including #Trump administration cuts of $790 million to the university’s #research #funding.
#law #Constitution #AcademicFreedom #education #Trump #BrainDrain #fascism #tyranny #autocracy #authoritarianism #totalitarianism
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/04/us/northwestern-president-resigns.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare -
#Texas just gutted #FreeSpeech on #college #campuses. Is your state next?
New laws in the Lone Star State will silence dissent and undermine #faculty authority.
By Laura Benitez and Jonathan Friedman
July 14, 2025"As thousands of students return to college campuses this fall, they will find themselves stepping into an environment reshaped by political and ideological mandates. Across the country, state legislators have been racing to exert new influence over free expression in higher education. Now, Texas has surged to the forefront, closing its 2025 legislative session by passing two alarming laws that take effect Sept. 1.
"Signed by Gov. Greg Abbott (R) in June, the new laws amount to a stunningly aggressive legislative crackdown on campus protest (#SB2972) and academic shared governance (#SB37) at public colleges and universities. The laws will not just silence dissent and undermine faculty authority in Texas; they provide a blueprint for how to dismantle academic freedom and chill speech on campus state by state.
"Only a few years ago, conservative lawmakers railed against college 'free-speech zones,' arguing that liberal administrators were muzzling students on the rest of campus. In 2019, Texas legislators joined other states in taking action by declaring all outdoor spaces on public campuses open for protest and speech by students, employees and the general public.
"Now, some of the same legislators have done an about-face. The campus protest law actually directs public colleges and universities to implement a version of free-speech zones and adopt sweeping limitations on protests. #Encampments? Banned. #Megaphones or #speakers during 'class hours'? Forbidden — if anyone claims your 'expressive activity' is one that 'intimidates others' or 'interferes' with an employee’s duties. Even wearing a mask during a protest — something many do for safety — could land a student or employee a disciplinary hearing resulting in 'sanctions.' And any expressive activity between 10 p.m. and 8 a.m. is off-limits altogether."
Read more:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/07/14/texas-campus-free-speech/Archived version:
https://archive.ph/2LuBD#TexasProtestLaws #ProtestLaws #ProtestLawsTexas #Project2025 #AntiProtestLaws #Authoritarianism #SilencingFreeSpeech #Censorship #AcademicFreedom #AntiMaskLaws #Fascism #USPol #CivilLiberties #Texas
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The #Trump admin is also attempting to #deport some foreign protesters & has revoked hundreds of #visas across the country.
The Trump admin has frozen or canceled some #funding for #universities like #Columbia, #Princeton, #Brown, University of #Pennsylvania, #Cornell & #Northwestern as well.
#law #Constitution #FreeSpeech #AcademicFreedom #education #research #innovation #Harvard #BrainDrain
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100% ILLEGAL
WHAT COUNTRY IS THIS?!?!?
#Trump administration asks #IRS to revoke #Harvard’s #TaxExempt status
The directive to the IRS is a significant escalation of Trump’s feud with #HarvardUniversity & other Ivy League institutions & other #nonprofit groups his admin views as “woke.”#law #AcademicFreedom #Constitution #FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech #AbuseOfPower #ExecutivePower #Autocracy #Tyranny #AntiIntellectualism #censorship #Dictatorship
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/04/16/trump-harvard-tax-exempt-irs/ -
EXCLUSIVE: Northwestern Suspends Journalism Professor Steven Thrasher After Gaza Solidarity Protest http://www.democracynow.org/2024/9/5/steven_thrasher #Gaza #RightToProtest #FreeSpeech #education #USColleges #USA #censorship #AcademicFreedom #NorthwesternUniversity
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@Susan_Larson_TN #BenSasse is the President of the #University of #Florida but he’s still taking away the rights and freedoms of people as though he were still a Senator whose loyalty is only to the #RepublicanParty. https://news.wfsu.org/state-news/2024-04-26/the-university-of-florida-threatens-student-protesters-with-suspension-and-banishment
#USpol #AcademicFreedom #Gaza #StudentProtests #BananaRepublicans
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‘Like a war zone’: Emory University grapples with fallout from police response to protest
https://www.inkl.com/a/GWbLWRCokGo
#israel #palestine #gaza #apartheid #ethnicCleansing #genocide #UnitedStates #studentProtests #freedomOfSpeech #academicFreedom #emory #emoryUniversity #BDS #boycottDivestmentAndSanctions